Lester Young famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats.Â Of course you have to start out playing like someone else.Â You have a model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you.Â But then you start playing for yourself.Â Show them that you're an individual.Â And I can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of one hand.
-- Lester Young

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Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.
-- Lester Young

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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense." --Sam Seaborne, West Wing
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.
Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

Lester Young famous quotes

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